Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
- adj. Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- That has lost its life and spirit; insipid; dead; flat.
- Dull; spiritless; destitute of animation; insipid.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking taste or flavor or tang
- adj. lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
Etymologies
- Latin vapidus.
Examples
“John Mariani, a longtime wine and food writer, predicts a rise in vapid wine blogs.”
Imperfect storage, blogging, new critics, Johnny Apple – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
“Sure, Ann Coulter has proven that being shrill and vapid is no serious barrier to success, but Coulter is at least sporadically witty and entertaining — she can turn a phrase, whether or not she uses it to say much of anything.”
“Locale: Staging and dressing together constitute locale and their absence will render it "vague" or "vapid" -- though a writer might, of course, pare away the requisite details deliberately, in the same way they might pare away features distinguishing voice.”
“I vaguely recall a vapid amicus brief or two urging that the Supreme Court grant cert in a case because some lawprofs cared about it.”
“She abandons her son for what can only be called a vapid frat boy.”
“Los Angeles has long been known as a vapid cultural wasteland.”
“Likened to bimbos, or called vapid, or whatever else?”
“From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the 2000 campaign, principled conservatives knew they were in trouble.”
“From the moment George Bush coined his vapid "compassionate conservatism" rhetoric during the”
“Sh*t, I wish I'd said that - especially the "vapid" part.”
Averting our eyes from the wreck (literal and figurative) (Jack Bog's Blog)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vapid’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 314 more...
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 138 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( etymology )
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 837 more...
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Rexicon
brazen, insipid, cuss, penchant, salacious, titillate, lurid, schlemiel, interlope, masquerade, supercilious, action-taking and 51 more...
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words my students purport to love
utilize, pudding, Indeed, kumquat, spleen, schadenfreude, slush, juxtapose, discombobulate, brackish, resuscitate, vapid
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Wuthering Heights List 4
Ten words used in Wuthering Heights
copious, benevolent, stupefied, obviate, vapid, melancholy, discerned, obscurely, tenacious, sentinel

dimã©lion helpful word. Nov 28, 2008
mollusque Seems flaccid as an insult. Nov 3, 2008
senwick Has a very intense angry sound and shape. Great insult.
Much like insipid. Nov 3, 2008